QQQE News and Press, Direxion NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index Shares From 06/01/24

2024-06-01 01:45:00 ET Summary The Treasury yield curve has been inverted between the 10-year and 2-year maturities for 500 days. Prior to the current inversion, which started in 2022, the 10-2 curve has inverted on four occasions since 1987. It still may be too early to concl...

2024-05-30 15:11:23 ET More on NASDAQ Composite Index: S&P 500 And Bond Market Annual Returns; Style Box Update Nine Align; Benign? Nein! A Correction In A Bull Market Nasdaq, S&P, Dow fall on Salesforce drag, mixed signals from Q1 GDP revision ...

2024-05-28 10:50:00 ET Summary A broad set of US economic indicators continues to show that the odds are low that an NBER-defined recession has started or is imminent. The macro trend peaked earlier in the year and is slowing, but the current reading for April remains moderately n...

2024-05-27 04:40:00 ET Summary Year-to-date, stocks are proving resilient in the face of higher interest rates and more muted expectations for monetary easing. This year’s backup in rates is much more contained. While investors will always prefer lower to higher rates, ...

2024-05-24 11:50:00 ET Summary Wall Street economists increasingly believe the risk of recession has fallen sharply. We currently have the longest, consistent period in history where the yield spread between the 10-year Treasury bond and the 3-month Treasury bill is inverted. ...

2024-05-20 15:10:00 ET Summary The VIX may be trading at 52-week lows lately, but the Nasdaq has been nothing short of volatile. Since the Nasdaq’s inception in 1971, the current period is just the 15th time it shifted from extreme oversold to extreme overbought levels in 2...

2024-05-10 07:50:00 ET Summary The four-week moving average of initial claims, which the Labor Department also provides, irons out the week-to-week squiggles. We’re looking for sharp increases in weekly claims for unemployment insurance benefits, and we’re looking fo...

2024-05-10 07:26:37 ET Momentum is back in the markets, with major indices like the Dow ( DJI ), S&P 500 ( SP500 ) and Nasdaq ( COMP:IND ) all just 1% away from their all-time record highs. The bull run is continuing despite concerns that the Fed might hold rates hig...

2024-05-09 10:40:00 ET Summary There are many ways to monitor recession risk, but any one indicator in isolation is flawed. In the search of early warning signs of trouble, it’s useful to focus on the labor market, which is arguably the key driver of economic strength and w...

2024-05-09 06:00:00 ET Summary Inflation, interest rates and geopolitical uncertainty tend to influence the market more than U.S. election results. Traders tend to conflate their political bias, or a certain election result, as being better for the stock market over the next four ...